January 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 25 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For January 12th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 30.

Feasts

• Afterfeast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.^[1][2]

Saints

• Martyr Tatiana of Rome, and those who suffered with her (c. 222 - 235)^{[1][3][4][note 2]}
• Martyr Mertius of Mauretania (284-305)^[1][6][7]
• Martyr Philotheus of Antioch (c. 305)^[1][8]
• Martyr Peter Apselamus of Eleutheropolis in Palestine (309)^[1][9][10] (see also January 13, and October 14^[11])
• Venerable Eupraxia of Tabenna in Egypt (393)^[1][12][13]
• Saints Tygrius the Presbyter, and Eutropius the Lector, at Constantinople (c. 395 - 408)^[5][14]
• Holy Eight Martyrs of Nicaea, by the sword.^[1][15]
• Virgin-Martyr Euthasia, by the sword.^[16][17]
• Venerable Elias the Wonderworker of Egypt, Desert Father (4th century)^[1][17][18] (see also January 8)
• Venerable Theodora of Alexandria, instructress of nuns (5th century)^{[1][17][note 3]}

Pre-Schism Western Saints

• Saint Probus, Bishop of Verona in Italy (c. 59)^[5][20]
• Saint Arcadius of Mauretania, a prominent citizen of Caesarea in Mauretania Caesariensis, barbarously martyred under Maximianus Herculeus (c. 302)^[5][20][21]
• Martyrs Zoticus, Rogatus, Modestus, Casutlus, between forty and fifty soldiers, in Africa.^[5][20][22]
• Saint John of Ravenna (Giovanni I Angelopte), Bishop of Ravenna and Confessor (494)^{[5][20][note 4]}
• Saint Caesaria, the gifted sister of St Caesarius of Arles and Abbess of the convent founded there by her brother (c. 530)^[20]
• Saint Victorian of Asan, founder and abbot of the monastery of Asan (now called San Vitorián) (c. 560)^[20]
• Saint Eilian of Rome (Eilian of Anglesey), (6th century)^{[23][note 5]} (see also January 13)
• Saint Salvius (Sauve), Bishop of Amiens, his relics were enshrined in Montreuil in Picardy (c. 625)^[20]
• Saint Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth and Confessor (690)^{[1][5][20][24]}

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

• Saint Sava I, Enlightener and first Archbishop of Serbia (1235)^[1][25] (see also: January 14 - Greek)
• Venerable Martinian of White Lake, Abbot (1483)^[1][26][27]
• Venerable Galacteon, disciple of St. Martinian of White Lake, Fool for Christ (1506)^[1][28][29]
• Venerable Archimandrite Theodosius of Tisman and Sophroniev Monasteries, fellow-struggler of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1802)^[30][31]
• Saint John of Tula, Fool-for-Christ (1850)^[1][32]

Other Commemorations

• Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "The Milk-giver" (Panagia Galaktotrofoussa; Mlekopitatelnica).^[1][33][34]
• Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Akathist".^[35][36]
• Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Mesopantitissis" in Crete (Theotokos of Mesopantitissis).^{[37][note 6]}
• Icon of the Mother of God "Priestly" (Popskaya).^[38][39]
• Commemoration of the Church of St. Alexander, near the Church of the Holy Apostles, in Constantinople.^[40]

Icon Gallery

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  Martyrdom of St. Tatiana of Rome
  (Menologion of Basil II, 10th century)

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  St. Tatiana of Rome.

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  Saint Arcadius of Mauretania, martyr.

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  Monastery of Saint Victorian of Asan.

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  St. Benet (Benedict Biscop) carrying St. Peter's Basilica to Britain.

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  Fresco of Saint Sava, King`s Church in Studenica, Serbia

Notes

1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
   The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
2. "AT Rome, in the time of the emperor Alexander, St. Tatiana, martyr, who was torn with iron hooks and combs, thrown to the beasts and cast into the fire, but, having received no injury, was beheaded, and thus went to heaven."^[5]
3. "Theodora was a glorious nun and teacher of the nuns from Alexandria. 'Just as trees require winter and snow in order to bear fruit, so trials and temptations are needed for our life,' spoke this holy woman. She died peacefully at the beginning of the fifth century."^[19]
4. "Bishop of Ravenna in Italy from 452 to 494. He saved his flock from the fury of Attila the Hun and mitigated its lot when the city was taken by Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths."^[20] Andreas Agnellus lists only one bishop of Ravenna with this name in the 5th century. Although Agnellus mistakenly assigns events dated to the earlier part of the century to John's office, John's surviving epitaph (CIL 11, 304) states he was bishop 16 Years, ten months and 18 days, and was buried 5 June 494.
5. Saint Eilian (Eilianus) came from Rome and lived around the 6th century AD. He came to Britain, where he lived as a hermit in the area north of Anglesey, and venerably reposed in peace.
6. The holy icon of "Panagia Mesopantitissis" was brough to Crete from Constantinople during the Iconoclastic period, in order to save it from the impious fury of the iconoclasts. According to Holy Tradition it was painted by St. Luke the Apostle. During the period of Venetian rule in Crete, it was kept in the Temple of the Holy Apostle Titus in Heraklion. Every Tuesday pious Christians prayed a litany before the holy icon. When Heraklion was captured by the Hagarenes, the Venetians took the venerable icon of the Virgin Mary and transferred it to Venice, where they placed it in the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos of the Salutations, where it has been kept there until today. A copy of the Holy Icon can be found in the Church of the Holy Apostle Titus in Heraklion, where the feast of the Synaxis of this icons is celebrated.

References

1. January 12/January 25. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
2. Afterfeast of the Theophany of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
3. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ἡ Ἁγία Τατιανὴ ἡ Μάρτυς. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
4. Martyr Tatiana of Rome, and those who suffered with Her. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
5. The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp.12-13.
6. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Μέρτιος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
7. Martyr Mertius of Mauretania. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
8. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Φιλόθεος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
9. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Πέτρος ὁ Ἀβεσαλαμίτης. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
10. Martyr Peter Apselamus of Palestine. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
11. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Πέτρος ὁ Αὐσελάμου. 14 Οκτωβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
12. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ἡ Ὁσία Εὐπραξία. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
13. Venerable Eupraxia of Tabenna, in Egypt. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
14. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι Τίγριος καὶ Εὐτρόπιος. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
15. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ὀκτὼ Μάρτυρες. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
16. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ἡ Ἁγία Εὐθασία. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
17. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p.7.
18. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἠλιοὺ ὁ Θαυματουργός. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
19. Bishop Nikolai Velimirovch. January 12. The Prologue from Ohrid. Serbian Orthodox Church Diocese of Western America.
20. January 12. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
21. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀρκάδιος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
22. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ζωτικός, Ρογάτος, Μοδεστὸς καὶ Καστούλιος οἱ Μάρτυρες. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
23. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐϊλιανὸς ἐκ Ρώμης. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
24. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Βενέδικτος. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
25. St Sava I, First Archbishop of Serbia. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
26. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Μαρτινιανός. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
27. Venerable Martinian the Abbot of Byeloezersk. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
28. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Γαλακτίων ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν Σαλός. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
29. The Monk Galaktion of Belozersk. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
30. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Θεοδόσιος ἐκ Ρωσίας. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
31. Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG).
32. (Russian) 25 января 2013 года. Иоанна Тульского, блаженного (+1850). Тульской епархии.
33. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Γαλακτοτροφούσης. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
34. Icon of the Mother of God the “Milkgiver”. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
35. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τοῦ Ἀκαθίστου. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
36. Icon of the Mother of God of the Akathist. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
37. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τῆς Μεσοπαντητίσσης ἐν Κρήτῃ. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
38. Icon of the Mother of God, the “Priestly”. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
39. The "Popskaya" ("Priestly") Icon of the Mother of God. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
40. Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) Μνήμη Ναοῦ Ἁγίου Ἀλεξάνδρου πλησίον τῶν Ἁγίων Ἀποστόλων. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

Sources

• January 12/January 25. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• January 25 / January 12. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG).
• January 12. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• Dr. Alexander Roman. January. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
• The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 7.
• January 12. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
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Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) 12 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• (Greek) Συναξαριστής. 12 Ιανουαρίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• (Russian) 25 января (12 января). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• (Russian) 12 января (ст.ст.) 25 января 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).